Image of Dan Brown
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
- Dan Brown
Collection: Fear
Image of Geraldine Ferraro
Some leaders are born women.
- Geraldine Ferraro
Collection: Leadership
Image of Po Bronson
Allow for many paths to your goal. Do not fixate on one path, because then you are likely to give up when that path is blocked.
- Po Bronson
Collection: Giving Up
Image of Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
- Mark Twain
Collection: Funny
Image of Oscar Wilde
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Flirty
Image of Oscar Wilde
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Regret
Image of Nick Saban
Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.
- Nick Saban
Collection: Punishment
Image of Rumi
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
- Rumi
Collection: Love
Image of Michael Josephson
What will matter in the end is not what you bought but what you built; not what you got but what you gave; not what you learned by what you taught. What will matter is not your competence but your character.
- Michael Josephson
Collection: Character
Image of Swami Vivekananda
Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.
- Swami Vivekananda
Collection: Grows
Image of Markus Zusak
One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.
- Markus Zusak
Collection: Book
Image of Storm Jameson
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
- Storm Jameson
Image of Michael Jackson
The Earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us, she deserves our care in return.
- Michael Jackson
Collection: Rocks
Image of LeCrae
Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.
- LeCrae
Collection: Character
Image of Leonardo da Vinci
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Ariana Grande
If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love.
- Ariana Grande
Collection: Giving Up
Image of Paul Graham
Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.
- Paul Graham
Collection: Startup
Image of Wendell Berry
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
- Wendell Berry
Collection: Spiritual
Image of John G. Lake
Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.
- John G. Lake
Collection: Mind
Image of Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
- Albert Camus
Collection: Life
Image of Robert Frost
The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Sigmund Freud
Dreams are constructed from the residue of yesterday.
- Sigmund Freud
Collection: Dream
Image of Patrick Lencioni
If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
- Patrick Lencioni
Collection: Organization
Image of Eckhart Tolle
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.
- Eckhart Tolle
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Rick Warren
Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.
- Rick Warren
Collection: Church
Image of Henry David Thoreau
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
Image of Walt Disney
After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
- Walt Disney
Collection: Pain
Image of Adi Shankara
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
- Adi Shankara
Collection: Happiness
Image of Yvon Chouinard
Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.
- Yvon Chouinard
Collection: Greatest Fear
Image of Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Collection: Life
Image of Og Mandino
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino
Collection: Motivational
Image of Charlie Chaplin
Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn’t Give Pain To Anybody.
- Charlie Chaplin
Collection: Laughing
Image of Jon Gordon
Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going.
- Jon Gordon
Collection: Optimistic
Image of Anton Chekhov
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
- Anton Chekhov
Collection: Wisdom
Image of Seth Godin
Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
- Seth Godin
Collection: Jobs
Image of Jay Asher
A lot of you cared, just not enough.
- Jay Asher
Collection: Sad
Image of Soren Kierkegaard
Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Collection: Love Is
Image of Ram Dass
If you think you are free, there is no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
Collection: Thinking
Image of Cheryl Strayed
The only way out of a hole is to climb out.
- Cheryl Strayed
Collection: Way
Image of C. S. Lewis
Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Real
Image of Benjamin Disraeli
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Collection: Atheist
Image of Viktor E. Frankl
Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Collection: Faith
Image of Stephen Chbosky
Everyone is special in their own way.
- Stephen Chbosky
Collection: Special
Image of Carl von Clausewitz
Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.
- Carl von Clausewitz
Collection: Perseverance
Image of Earl Nightingale
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
- Earl Nightingale
Image of Esther Hicks
Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.
- Esther Hicks
Collection: Reality
Image of Leonard Ravenhill
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Collection: Prayer
Image of Benjamin Franklin
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Valentino Rossi
The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.
- Valentino Rossi
Collection: Speed